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Hello, Im a new beginner here, so sorry if this is the wrong place to post this question. I was wondering how I could launch the game straight into the level. Because whenever I hit the launch game button for my project it boots into a black screen? Any help?

Since you‘re new, I assume that you‘re just using the editor. In this case you need to create a level or open one. By default it doesn‘t load any level.

However if you‘re using the launcher to really play your game, first make sure that you‘ve exported your level to the engine. Then you can run the launcher and open the console. Here you can type „map MAPNAME“ (replace MAPNAME with the name of your map). The map should now be loaded. You can also specify this in one of your .cfg files, so you don‘t need to open the console every time.

You can also specify the map command in the cryproject file of your project by opening it in a text editor such as Notepad++. The templates already load the example map by default, which looks like the following in the cryproject file: